[mythtv-users] multiple capture cards and sound?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:28:02AM -0400, Larry K wrote:
>    OK.  I just stumbled acroos a post that suggested the need for a sound
>    card  for  each capture card, and I figured I better find out before I
>    get that 2nd capture card.

And to clarify one more level (since I find I didn't before), that *is*
true if you're using frame-grabber cards instead of hardware-MPEG
cards, since those do *not* capture audio, and Myth has to do it
itself, though a sound card.

Given the price of HMPEG cards these days, that solution is widely
regarded as not worth bothering with, unless you're *really* short of
cash, and have all the parts laying around.

As HMPEG cards get cheaper and cheaper, it will become not worth
bothering with, period.

Cheers,
-- jra
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